It's getting dark.

Chu Zhaozhao squatted in front of the door.

The chickens in the fence wall are bigger again, and after eating the chicken food, the little ones seem to be very excited, and they don't listen to the chirp.

"Zhaozhao! Your man hasn't come back yet, huh? A woman passing by shouted at Chu Zhaozhao with washed clothes in her arms.

"Not yet, but soon!" Chu Zhaozhao greeted with a smile.

With that, she looked out into the courtyard, and at the end of the dirt-paved street, there was a willow tree, and children were playing under it.

A yellow dog crouched not far away, curled up in a drowsy ball.

Overhead, several unknown birds fluttered their wings and flew by.

This is not an uncommon pastoral scene, but it makes the corners of Chu Zhaozhao's mouth raise a faint smile.

She loved her days at Goshawk Village.

Everything is simple here.

She didn't have to rack her brains to think about how she could stand out from the tens of thousands of outer disciples and get a quota of only a hundred inner disciples every year.

There is no need to carry the heavy responsibility of family revitalization.

Don't worry about how to hold that rusty sword to face the grandfather who is full of expectations for her.

She only needs to go to pick wild vegetables and fruits with Sanniang every day, or go to the textile workshop to help sew some clothes or silk.

Then you can go home, cook a table of food, and wait for Chu Qingxiao to come back.

She even sometimes wondered if it would be nice if she could go on forever.

Thinking of this, Chu Zhaozhao's eyes suddenly lit up when he looked into the distance.

She stood up and walked briskly towards the outside of the courtyard.

……

"So, the female thief still hasn't learned?"

After dinner, Chu Zhaozhao and Chu Qingxiao walked side by side in the cottage.

"Hmm." Chu Qingxiao frowned and nodded slightly.

It has been five days since he was "caught" by Chu Zhaozhao that day, and he has been wholeheartedly helping Yuejian comprehend the Shura realm in the past few days.

But this kind of mysterious ability is difficult to teach by words and deeds, and Chu Qingxiao can only use it in the competition, which is enough to have an oppressive fighting method and let the other party understand it by himself.

But five days have passed, and although Tsukimi has vaguely touched the threshold, he has not been able to take the last step out of the door.

According to the agreement, starting tomorrow, Chu Qingxiao will be able to practice with him with a sword.

And this is actually a very dangerous thing.

Thinking of this, Chu Qingxiao's brows furrowed a little deeper.

Of course, Chu Zhaozhao didn't know Chu Qingxiao's thoughts, but he thought that he was worried that if he couldn't do this, he would be embarrassed by Yuejian.

She was relieved: "You don't have to worry, it's a big deal that before the female thief really makes a move, let's escape, and I have almost figured out the layout of the cottage in the past few days." ”

Chu Qingxiao glanced at Chu Zhaozhao and said: "Although the girl sometimes jumps out of the way, her heart is not bad, even if she really can't learn, she won't be embarrassed." ”

"In the final analysis, what I said before was just to coerce me into granting her the method of the Shura realm."

"Hmph." When Chu Zhaozhao heard this, he was a little dissatisfied: "Are you very protective of her?" What, do you want to be the lady of Goshawk Village? ”

Chu Qingxiao laughed dumbly.

"I just think that the people of Goshawk Village are actually not easy, and the Yuejian girl is now so desperate to learn the Shura Realm, I'm afraid it's because she herself is not sure to deal with the death arena launched in the Ghost Crow Village this month."

Although Chu Zhaozhao was dissatisfied with Yuejian on his lips, he still admired Yuejian in his heart for taking care of the goshawk village by himself.

It's just that she's a person with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and she doesn't want to admit it.

"That ghost crow village is indeed too ruthless, if there is a chance, I will definitely serve that group of villains in a pot by adhering to the Ming Master's door!" She said through a bit of gritted teeth.

Chu Qingxiao glanced at her sideways when he heard this, wanting to say something, but he didn't open his mouth after all.

"Save us!!"

"Open the door! Help us! ”

And at this moment, at the door of the cottage, there was a sudden heart-rending cry.

Chu Qingxiao and the others, who were walking here, were also shocked when they heard this, and they hurried over, and at the same time, the person in charge of guarding the gate of the village also sounded the big drum of early warning at this time.

In the dull sound of drums, the darkened cottage was lit up, and the crowd rushed towards it.

Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao were the first to rush to the gate of the village.

Before I got closer, I saw seven or eight figures lying on the gate of the village, and under the light of the torches in the hands of the people guarding the gate, it could be seen that those people were in rags, and there were still wounds and dirty blood on their bodies and faces.

Seeing someone coming, they became more and more agitated, put their hands through the gap in the railing, and shouted, "Help us!" Let's get inside! ”

As they spoke, some of them looked behind them, as if something terrible was coming at them in the darkness behind them.

"What's going on?" Chu Qingxiao walked to the gate of the village and asked with a frown.

The guards at the gate were also confused, and responded: "We don't know, this group of people suddenly rushed over, at first I thought it was a beast from the mountains!" ”

Chu Qingxiao heard the words and took a closer look, these people were all fresh faces, not people from Goshawk Village.

"Why don't you let them in first, and the children?" Chu Zhaozhao on the side said with some unbearable words.

Chu Qingxiao looked at the crowd, and as Chu Zhaozhao said, there was a four or five-year-old child in the group, who was pulled by a woman and hid behind the woman.

Chu Qingxiao nodded, his eyes swept over the group of fleeing people again, making sure that they had no cultivation, and then turned to the gatekeeper and said, "Let them in first, I see that some of them are seriously injured, and if they are not treated in time, they will die." ”

When the gatekeeper heard this, he hesitated for a while, but still listened to Chu Qingxiao's opinion.

With the muffled sound of the gate of the village opening, the group of people hurriedly ran in, although they don't know what they have experienced, but obviously the escape all the way has exhausted their strength, all supported by the will to survive, the moment they ran into the goshawk village, everyone collapsed to the ground.

"What's going on!? Who let open the gate of the wall! And at this moment, the voice of Huang Quxiang came from behind everyone.

I saw the man walking quickly, his face displeased.

When the gatekeeper saw Huang Quxiang's appearance, he was also a little jealous in his heart, and he didn't dare to respond for a while.

"I let them in, I see that they are seriously injured, and I think it is important to save people......" Chu Qingxiao and Huang Quxiang did have some unpleasant experiences, but Chu Qingxiao still maintained as much restraint as possible at this time, he looked at the other party and said calmly.

When Huang Quxiang heard this, he didn't pay attention to Chu Qingxiao, but turned his head to glance at the people who fell to the ground, his brows furrowed slightly, and then said, "Drive out." ”

As soon as these words came out, the group of people who had just thought they had been waiting for a long time suddenly looked frightened.

They naturally regarded Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao, who let them into the village, as life-saving straws, and wailed to Chu Qingxiao and the others for help.

Chu Qingxiao's brows furrowed, and before he could say anything, Chu Zhaozhao's face changed: "What do I mean by saying this guy?" There are children among them, and even if the village doesn't take them in, they must be bandaged before they leave! ”

Facing Chu Zhaozhao's questioning, Huang Quxiang also ignored it, just looked at the few people guarding the door, and said coldly: "I speak, can't you hear me?" ”

Obviously, Huang Quxiang is indeed very prestigious in this goshawk village, and those people trembled when they heard this, and they didn't dare to say more than half a sentence, so they hurriedly stretched out their hands to pull those people out of the cottage.

And the change here has also attracted more residents from the cottage.

Da Da Zhuang and Guan Zijin also arrived at the same time, and the two of them looked at the fleeing people who were really struggling to stay in the village, and then looked at Huang Quxiang with a cold face and Chu Zhaozhao with an angry face, and probably understood what was happening.

"Huang Mazi, there's no need, the village is a little tight now, but they are all poor people, can help a handful, at least give them food and then drive them away......" Da Da Zhuang said at this time.

Guan Zijin also nodded, and added: "If you are afraid that they are here to make trouble, then give a few steamed buns, don't be in a hurry to ...... at this time"

Seeing that Da Zhuang and Guo Zijin were also on his side, Chu Zhaozhao was more confident, and was about to say something more.

Huang Quxiang glanced at Pang Guo and the others, and then walked to the group of fleeing people, he grabbed a man, lifted the hair scattered on his forehead, and said: "The two of you want to let the entire Goshawk Village be buried with them, then please!" ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at the man's forehead, and saw a crow-shaped mark on the man's forehead.

Glimpsing this, Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao still didn't know why, but Pang Guo, who was still helping them to speak, had a change in face and was faintly pale.

"It's the Raven Slave Seal." At the same time, a voice sounded in the ears of Chu Qingxiao and the others.

Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao looked back, but saw Sanniang walking behind them without knowing when.

"What is the Raven Slave Seal?" Chu Zhaozhao asked.

"The Ghost Crow Village will collect living people as slaves from various cottages that cannot pay money, and after the slaves are sent to the Ghost Crow Village, they will be branded with such a mark on their foreheads, and these people are also called Crow Slaves."

"I don't know what the ghost crow village wants these people to do, but once they become crow slaves, they hardly survive for more than three months."

Sanniang said with a gloomy face: "These people are probably the crow slaves who escaped from the ghost crow village. ”

"The ghost crow village has a special means to track down the crow slaves, if the cottage on Taixuan Mountain dares to take in these fleeing crow slaves, the ghost crow village will regard them as enemies."

"There used to be a village of nearly 2,000 people, and it was slaughtered because it took in a crow slave......"

Hearing this, Chu Zhaozhao and Chu Qingxiao's faces changed suddenly, and they obviously understood that they had almost made a big mistake.

And the group of crow slaves who fled for their lives, seeing that their identities were revealed, turned even more pale, and began to wail incessantly.

"We are ordinary farmers under the mountain, we have never done anything harmful, and we were captured by thieves and bought in the ghost crow village! Good deeds, everyone, give us a way to live, we ......," said one of the men, tearfully in his eyes.

"If we are brought back to the Ghost Crow Village, we will not have any way to live, and those guys are not human at all......"

Seeing this, the surrounding people also hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, while talking, they also kowtowed to everyone vigorously, with great force, many people's foreheads were already bloodstained for a moment, but they were especially undecided, obviously returning to the human purgatory like the ghost crow village, compared to the pain in front of them, it was not worth mentioning at all.

The scene was indeed miserable, and the people around the goshawk village were a little trembling when they saw it.

But Huang Quxiang didn't mean to compromise at all, he looked at the gatekeepers, who didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and stepped forward to drag the crying fleeers, and threw them out of the cottage gate one by one.

And at this moment, the woman with the child gave birth to her strength out of nowhere, she broke free from the pull of the two strong men, and forcibly pulled her child to Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao.

It was probably her mother's intuition that made her realize that among the group of people in front of her, only Chu Qingxiao and the two were the possible lifesavers.

She grabbed the corner of Chu Zhaozhao's clothes, and before she could say anything, two lines of tears poured down her cheeks first.

"Girl, I'm cheap, and if I die, I'll die......"

"But my child is still young, you can leave her behind!"

"You can do anything, you can be slaves and maids, cattle and horses, as long as you have something to eat!"

"Those people in the Crow Village won't know, I'll just say she's dead!"

"I beg you! She's still young, she's only five years old......"